RE: SXMACLIB

"kerravon86-/[email protected] [H390-MVS]" <[email protected]> 27 Sep 2019 21:33:22 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.mvs
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---In [email protected], <shelby.beach@...> wrote :

> Agreed ! They (IBM) don't have a whole lot of
> legal protections, but that doesn't, by default,
> make it public domain.

Yes it does. Those were the rules prior to the
US becoming a signatory to the Berne
Convention, which only happened in 1989.

If you published something without a copyright
notice, it was public domain.

Post-Berne it is by default copyright and you
instead need an explicit "release to the
public domain" notice. MVS 3.8J was
published before 1989 so IBM have given
up all rights to the product. They can only
copyright any changes they make to it,
like the z/OS changes.

BFN. Paul.


https://copyright-australia.com/176-Countries-Berne-Convention.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkb6l1MTy5AIVwo-PCh0LUQ5HEAAYASAAEgLTOfD_BwE